Zen martini: A martini with no vermouth at all. And no gin, either.

Satire doesn't effect change.

I had grown up as a feature writer, and basically my career had been in The National Lampoon and as a magazine editor, and I'd never been a reporter.

I do have to travel a lot for speaking engagements.

Microeconomics is about money you don't have, and macroeconomics is about money the government is out of.

Then basically what was happening was that it was the middle '80s, and Rolling Stone realized that a lot of their readers had voted for [Ronald] Reagan, and they were going, "Gosh! We need a Republican! Does anybody know a Republican? Wait a minute! I think P.J.'s a Republican!"

Los Angeles is many places in one place.